Doge Leon of Amalfi

Doge Leon of Amalfi (731-) was the Doge of Amalfi as a vassal of the Byzantine Empire.

Biography
Leon was born to the House of Amalfinos, a dynasty of Catholic Greeks on the western coast of southern Italy. Leon was a rival of the Republic of Venice on the other coast of Italy on the Adriatic Sea, but in 769 he agreed to marry his daughter Aikaterine Amalfinos to Doge Maurizio of Venice's son, the future Doge Giovanni of Venice.